Where can I find logs of all media files played/accessed by a user?

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I have a bit of a conundrum.

Yesterday I was organizing some home video archives, and I accidentally moved a file into the wrong folder of about 3000 other clips, before copying said folder onto a new disk and wiping the original.

They're records of battery testing, so thumbnails all visually very similar - which means finding this clip again will mean going through each clip, one at a time. Sadly they all have the same creation/modification timestamps now too, so can't even get a hint there.

The only hope is - I watched the file before moving it yesterday. So I'm hoping that SOMEWHERE on that ubuntu machine, there's a log file that says I accessed [filename].mp4, which I can then search for in the new archive.

So - for the forensics experts out there - are there any logs in the system that track what media files are played/opened. I was using the MPV deb at the time.

Thanks!

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 29 '22 at 13:21

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Not unless you added a script for it yourself.

answered Sep 29 '22 at 13:21

Rinzwind

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Where can I find logs of all media files played/accessed by a user?

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